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legitimation moves through time
Yesterday, while I was giving my lecture at the Latin American E-Gov Summit, I noticed that the legitimation-question needs to be worked out more explicitly. I was arguing that in network society the move from institutional legitimation to results-oriented legitimation … Continue reading
Las polÃticas del código abierto: la revolución de la producción colectiva
Traducido por: Lic. Fernando Rojas Andrews El concepto de software de código abierto puede ser definido de forma inocente como practicas de producción y desarrollo que promueven el acceso a los códigos fuentes de un producto. Sin embargo, este concepto … Continue reading
Transparency in Network Society: ¡Que Fashion!
The text reflects the discussion in a workshop called “Transparency in Network Society.†It was co-organized by the National Security Archive, EGAP-Tec de Monterrey, the Catedra Software AG, and the Nuevo Leon Transparency Commission. The idea for this seminar was … Continue reading
The Eight Principles of Governance in Network Society
Castells (1993 1–2)introduced the term network society to describe a society built on technologies of information technologies, time–space compression, post-Fordism, and the advance of finance capital, which is characterized by networking, globalization, and the flexibility, individuality, and instability of work. … Continue reading
today in Mexico City we were thinking about the future…(here my memo, uncut, uncensored)
From: Dr. Philipp Mueller (EGAP – Tec de Monterrey, Catedra Software AG)[1] To: Participants of the Workshop “Prospectiva del Gobierno Electrónico†of Función Publica Digital Era Governance: Policy Making in Network Society The world is changing radically. We are moving … Continue reading
Do you speak Good Governance?
At the dinner table last night, in a beautiful house overlooking the grand Mexican Flag on Cerro del Opispado, I sensed a sadness that I had not felt since discussions with Central and Eastern European policy makers around our very … Continue reading
The Radical Potential of Open Source
Open source can be innocently defined as practices in production and development that promote access to the end product’s sources. However, this concept has radical and disruptive potential. This potential comes from freeing the access to the production process. If … Continue reading
Citizen Relationship Management (CiRM)
Next week, we will be organizing a workshop on Citizen Relationship Management (CiRM) together with CIAPEM, the Catedra Software AG, and MAP-EGAP. I think it will be an exciting event, because it combines tough questions of political theory, “how can … Continue reading
Digital-Era Governance
Patrick Dunleavy (LSE), Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Insitute), and Simon Bastow/Jane Tinker (LSE) have written a seminal piece in J-PART: New Public Management is Dead — Long Live Digital-Era Governance describing the developments in “leading-edge” countries (UK, US, Australia, Canada, … Continue reading
governance in network society
On Monday, I was in Mexico City, invited by Lourdes (the president of CIAPEM) to a workshop on governing by network. Bill Eggers was doing the presentation on his book governing by network, which is a great introduction into the … Continue reading
